Patents Examined by Jenine Pagan
  • Patent number: 10314755
    Abstract: A user-incontinence cleaning kit including at least one of a scent blocker and a facial mask, a plurality of gloves sized configured to be worn by the user in an overlapping relationship with respect to each other and corresponding to a select order of use for cleaning a patient, and a plurality of incontinence pads sized and shaped to be interposed between a backside of a patient and a top of a patient support structure.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 10, 2016
    Date of Patent: June 11, 2019
    Inventor: Joy Oan Young
  • Patent number: 10300347
    Abstract: The disclosure relates to a sealed pressure container, which solves the problem in the prior art that a pump is required for providing air pressure in the container. The conventional product is inconvenient for carrying and is expensive. The sealed pressure container includes a body and a winding member. The body has an open end and a flexible portion, the flexible portion is at least one part of the body at one side where the open end is formed. The flexible portion can be wound around the winding member from the open end to provide air pressure in the body by compressing the air inside the body. Thus, without using a pump, tennis balls can be prevented from releasing pressure by keeping in the low-cost sealed pressure container. The sealed pressure container is convenient for carrying and operating and has reduced manufacture cost.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 6, 2017
    Date of Patent: May 28, 2019
    Inventors: Albert Y. Zhu, Brian Y. Zhu, Huilong Zhu
  • Patent number: 10300595
    Abstract: A socket holder and storage device includes a sheet of plastic with tabbed cutouts. The cutouts are generally upside down U-shaped apertures with an integrally formed cantilevered tab extending upwardly from the middle of the bottom of the aperture. The tab, which can be deflected, is sized and configured to fit in the square drive recess of a socket. The aperture is sized and shaped to receive a socket and prevent disengagement from the tab unless the tab is deflected. The sheet may be equipped with various accessories and stored in crates.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 1, 2016
    Date of Patent: May 28, 2019
    Inventor: Anthony Fletcher
  • Patent number: 10294014
    Abstract: A packet for bar-shaped articles including an outer wrapper defining an internal space for housing the bar-shaped articles and accessible through an access opening. The packet includes an internal drawer located inside the outer wrapper and a sleeve located inside the outer wrapper with an upper free edge accessible through the opening. The sleeve is configured to receive and support the evenly spaced bar-shaped articles with their longitudinal axes parallel to a longitudinal axis of the sleeve itself. The sleeve is wrapped round the outside of the internal drawer. The outer wrapper has at least one opening facing a sidewall of the sleeve at the internal drawer to allow applying at least one sliding force on the sleeve and to produce a rotation of the selfsame sleeve relative to the internal drawer and the outer wrapper.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 6, 2016
    Date of Patent: May 21, 2019
    Assignee: G.D S.P.A.
    Inventors: Giulia Corte Coi, Manuele Cucchi, Roberto Polloni, Luca Federici
  • Patent number: 10287073
    Abstract: A carrier for holding a plurality of containers. The carrier has a bottom panel, at least one front panel, at least one back panel, at least two side panels, and at least one central panel dividing the interior of the carrier into a front portion and a back portion. At least one front divider flap is foldably connected to the at least one central panel and at least one back divider flap is foldably connected to the at least one central panel. At least one retention flap is foldably connected to at least one of the at least one front panel, the at least one back panel, the at least two side panels, and the at least one central panel. The at least one retention flap engages a container and provides stability to the respective container in one of the front or back container-receiving spaces.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 8, 2015
    Date of Patent: May 14, 2019
    Assignee: Graphic Packaging International, LLC
    Inventors: Mark Zammit, Elias Spartis
  • Patent number: 10278790
    Abstract: A receiving sleeve receives surgical instruments. A holding device for storing and cleaning surgical instruments includes at least one receiving sleeve. A surgical instrument set includes a holding device and/or receiving sleeve. The receiving sleeve and the holding device have a light construction which allows the maximum flow of fluid to instruments held in the receiving sleeve or holding device. The receiving sleeve includes a cylindrical hollow body with a plurality of peripherally spaced inner clamping arms which have punctiform or linear engagement sections that are adjusted to come into contact with an inserted tool in a force-fit or form-fit manner for holding the tool within the receiving sleeve at a radial distance to the cylindrical body.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 17, 2015
    Date of Patent: May 7, 2019
    Assignee: Aesculap AG
    Inventors: Gerold Zieris, Dieter Weisshaupt, Serkan Bellikli
  • Patent number: 10273037
    Abstract: A reusable packaging and storage article for an elastic constriction ring is described wherein the article comprises a top member and a bottom member configured to releasably engage with each other, wherein the bottom member comprises: a cavity of substantially circular shape having a perimeter lip with an inner and outer surface to house, in use, a portion of the elastic constriction ring; and an at least partially pillar extending from a substantially central portion of the cavity; and wherein a summit of the pillar has a diameter less than the diameter of a central aperture of the elastic constriction ring, and a lower portion of the pillar has a diameter greater than the diameter of a central aperture of the elastic constriction ring; and wherein the top member comprises: a cavity of substantially circular shape having a perimeter lip with an inner and outer surface to house, in use, a portion of the elastic constriction ring, wherein the diameter of an inner surface of the perimeter is the same or greate
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 27, 2016
    Date of Patent: April 30, 2019
    Assignee: RECKITT BENCKISER (BRANDS) LIMITED
    Inventors: Kevin Pan, Piotr Zaborniak, Teun Franciscus van Wetten
  • Patent number: 10258518
    Abstract: A pack module includes a number of absorbent articles and at least one belt to which the absorbent articles can be releasably attached. The belt when placed in the pack module constitutes a gripping device which is intended to act on at least one of the articles and, at least partially, remove at least one absorbent article from the pack module when the gripping device is used. Removal of firmly compressed absorbent articles from a pack module without using additional material in the pack module is thus possible.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 29, 2012
    Date of Patent: April 16, 2019
    Assignee: ESSITY HYGIENE AND HEALTH AKTIEBOLAG
    Inventors: Henrik Carlén, Roy Hansson
  • Patent number: 10259613
    Abstract: A multi-compartment package for dispensing plural items is disclosed. The package includes plural individual sealed compartment units which are releasably secured to each other. Each compartment unit includes a flanged base from which a chamber depends. The chamber serves to hold an item to be dispensed and is surrounded by a flange. A closure member, in the form of a respective portion of a frangible cover sheet, is adhesively secured to the flange of each compartment unit. Each compartment unit includes at least one foldable tab in a corner of its flange, which can be folded down to enable the closure member to be removed from the compartment unit after the compartment unit is separated from other compartment units of the package.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 11, 2018
    Date of Patent: April 16, 2019
    Assignee: Medi-Dose, Inc.
    Inventors: Robert Braverman, Donald A. Lawson
  • Patent number: 10251504
    Abstract: A Christmas tree disposal casing, having an upper end and a lower end, and a first panel and a second panel that each have an inner edge, an outer edge, an upper edge, and a lower edge. The casing has a flat configuration and also has a sleeve configuration for encasing a tree therein when the first panel is joined to the second panel at or near their outer edges. An expansion panel is affixed near and extends between the inner edges. The inner edges are selectively joined directly together along an expansion seam. When the expansion seam is opened, the expansion panel provides additional circumference to the casing for holding larger trees. The outer edge of the first panel is selectively joined to a secondary zipper edge on the second panel, located inwardly of the outer edge of the second panel, to reduce the circumference of the casing.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 28, 2017
    Date of Patent: April 9, 2019
    Inventors: Harold Sutton, Rachelle Sutton, Millicent Davis, Kevin Davis
  • Patent number: 10238224
    Abstract: A cup holder storage apparatus with enhanced stability for securing a plurality of beverage storing cups is provided. The cup holder storage apparatus is designed to be supported by a user's thumb, index finger and radius bone in an arm. The apparatus includes a tray having a thumb hole in a central portion of the tray and a plurality of compartments, each compartment having an upper opening that receives one of the plurality of beverage storing cups, each compartment having a pair of arm members pivotably mounted to the upper opening of the compartment, and a pair of boomerang-shaped gutters coupled to each arm member and extending from a portion proximate the upper opening of the compartment to the bottom of the arm member.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 21, 2018
    Date of Patent: March 26, 2019
    Assignee: THUMBZ INC.
    Inventor: Henrik Nazarian
  • Patent number: 10220590
    Abstract: An inflatable packaging material includes two outer films, a plurality of valve films, and a non-sealable material positioned between the valve films. The films are sealed together by a plurality of seals, including a valve seal extending across the material. The seals define a plurality of air columns and an inflation passage in communication with the columns. The non-sealable material is arranged to form valve portions positioned along the valve seal and spaced passage portions positioned along the inflation passage. The valve portions provide valve passages through the valve seal, to allow airflow into each air column. The passage portions are arranged such that one side seal passes through a space between the passage portions to seal one end of the inflation passage, and the other side seal passes through one of the passage portions to create an open inflation port.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 17, 2017
    Date of Patent: March 5, 2019
    Inventor: Michael Baines
  • Patent number: 10201475
    Abstract: The invention relates to a pharmaceutical product or container closure system containing an overpouch with an intransparent first foil and a transparent second foil, a transparent primary container for holding a transparent liquid, e.g., a pharmaceutical formulation, wherein the transparent primary container is packed within the overpouch and labeled with at least one label and wherein the at least one label acts as a light absorbing segment having a reflection RL for light in the range of about 350 nm to about 800 nm and an inner surface of the intransparent first foil of the overpouch acts as a light reflecting background having a reflection RF for light in the direction of the primary container in the range of about 350 nm to about 800 nm with RF?RL. By the transparent second foil and the inventive reflection properties it is achieved that the at least one label on the primary container is visible and readable. Additionally, visual inspection of the content of the transparent primary container is possible.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 5, 2015
    Date of Patent: February 12, 2019
    Assignee: Fresenius Kabi Deutschland GmbH
    Inventors: Elisabeth Jöbstl, Gerald Wegner, Asbjørn Solberg-Eriksen, Eric Delaporte
  • Patent number: 10172434
    Abstract: The present invention relates to a compact container having a rotating contents container, in which a button frame integrally formed thereon with a button is coupled to the inside of a container body, a support is hinged to the inside of the container body, a rotation frame is rotatably coupled to the inside of the support, a contents container accommodating an impregnation member is fixedly coupled to the inside of the rotation frame, wherein first and second latching protrusions are formed on the button frame and the rotation frame, respectively, to be latched to each other, thus the second latching protrusion of the rotation frame is latched to the first latching protrusion of the button frame when lifting the support from the container body to rotate the contents container, such that the rotation frame is automatically rotated at a predetermined angle, thereby improving the convenience of use.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 2, 2017
    Date of Patent: January 8, 2019
    Assignee: PUM-TECH KOREA CO., LTD
    Inventor: Do Hoon Lee
  • Patent number: 10155616
    Abstract: A wrap around container (31) for holding an electronic device (53) has a substantially rectangular panel (34) comprising a device receiving portion (43) at one end of the panel (34), a fixing portion (35) at the opposite end of the panel (34), and a wrap around portion (37) in between. A pair of flaps (32, 33) extend from opposite sides of the device receiving portion (43) of the panel (34), each side being on a respective longitudinal edge of the rectangular panel (34). Each flap (32, 33) is arranged to be folded into a closed position where the flap (32, 33) is over at least a part of the device receiving portion (43) and an upper surface of a device (53) when placed on the device receiving portion (43). The wrap around portion (37) is arranged to wrap at least over the flaps (32, 33) in the closed position and the fixing portion (35) is arranged to be fixed to an outside of the container (31) after wrapping of the wrap around portion (37) to close the container (31).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 20, 2014
    Date of Patent: December 18, 2018
    Assignee: PACKAGING ONE LIMITED
    Inventor: Ian Neil Chesworth
  • Patent number: 10139861
    Abstract: Case accessories for portable electronic devices are disclosed. In some embodiments, a case accessory may include a base configured to sit on a working surface, a support coupled to the base and configured to support a portable electronic device in an elevated position, a rotational mechanism coupled to the support configured to allow the holder to rotate in one or more directions relative to the support, and a holder coupled to the rotational mechanism and configured to secure the portable electronic device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 31, 2012
    Date of Patent: November 27, 2018
    Assignee: TARGUS GROUP INTERNATIONAL, INC.
    Inventors: Kevin Gallagher, Robert Shortt, Daniel Ballou, Ron DeCamp, Mark Thoni, James C. Frinak
  • Patent number: 10138030
    Abstract: Tamperproof closures for use on a container are disclosed. The closure includes a base which can be arranged on a container port and can be connected thereto in a fluid-tight manner as well as a closure part connected to the base via a predetermined breaking point. Each of the base and the closure part includes at least one force-enhancing means by which a movement of the base and the closure part relative to each other can be force-assisted in terms of destruction of the predetermined breaking point. The movement of the base and the closure part relative to each other can be a rotary movement of the closure part with respect to the base in the opening direction of the closure part and each force-enhancing means can be a handle in the form of a lever projecting radially from both the base and the closure part with respect to the axis of rotation of the rotary movement.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 19, 2013
    Date of Patent: November 27, 2018
    Assignee: B. BRAUN AVITUM AG
    Inventor: Willy Orszullok
  • Patent number: 10111788
    Abstract: A package comprises: wrapped absorbent articles comprising: an absorbent article having an absorber; and a wrapper for individually wrapping the absorbent article, the absorbent article being placed on the wrapper and folded together with the wrapper, and the absorbent article being wrapped individually by the wrapper; and a bag containing the plurality of wrapped absorbent articles, wherein the wrapped absorbent articles are provided with a perfume, at least one surface of the bag comprises: aperture through which the perfume of the wrapped absorbent articles contained in the bag can pass; and a perfume indicator for indicating an existence of the perfume, a compressibility of the package is 10% or more when a load of 1.35 kg in weight is applied in an area of 100 mm×200 mm of the package for ten seconds, and a compression resilience of the package is 95% or more after ten seconds has passed after removal of the load.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 23, 2015
    Date of Patent: October 30, 2018
    Assignee: UNICHARM CORPORATION
    Inventors: Kiyoko Nishimura, Yuki Noda, Toshihisa Hayashi, Taro Nittono
  • Patent number: 10109446
    Abstract: There are described dispensers (10; 20; 30; 40; 50; 60) of alkali or alkaline-earth metals, comprising deposits of getter materials (13; 23; 33; 43; 53; 63) and alkali or alkaline-earth metal sources (12, 22; 32; 42; 53; 63), in which the sources of alkali or alkaline-earth metal are protected from environmental gases by said deposits of getter materials.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 12, 2008
    Date of Patent: October 23, 2018
    Assignee: SAES GETTERS S.P.A.
    Inventors: Giorgio Longoni, Marco Amiotti
  • Patent number: 10108888
    Abstract: A matrix barcode on a can component, such as a can end panel, a pull tab of a can end, or the coil stock, is formed by laser application that makes spots that represent the matrix barcode modules.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 12, 2014
    Date of Patent: October 23, 2018
    Assignee: Crown Packaging Technology, Inc.
    Inventor: Christopher Paul Ramsey